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Beat me to my own post! :yikes:

Nothing some 2x2x1/8in angle couldn't fix. Still though, watching a chunk of your robot fly off after a hit is... disconcerting.

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That netting didn't get dinged during inspection as an entanglement hazard? Wow...

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Looks like CIR wasn't the only regional that had problems with upside-down robots.

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I was amazed at what made it through inspection at palemtto, I saw robots where the bumpers where held on by zipties, dragging on the ground. I saw teams with bumpers that had notches cut out of them that clearly didn't meet the bumper rules. I saw teams that didnt have white numbers on their bumpers. And then i saw a team that had so many numbers on their bumpers you couldnt tell what team they where. (some digits where even upside down)

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The netting bot was shaky, the ball got stuck in it a few times.

In one of our qualification matches, an opposing robots bumpers were spread out throughout the field. While that team was still playing insanely aggressively by ramming and drive over other bots.

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This isn't exactly a battles scar but is some pretty severe damage. One team at Southfield districts burned through the carpet and into the floor with their drive train when they were stuck against a wall.

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Our practice bot during testing. The 1"x1"x 1/16" wall tubing used to be parallel with the one below. Our dampening springs were not performing and the sudden stops took their toll. We have some reinforcing to do on our bagged robot Thursday at Dallas.

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That looks like an awful lot of bending moment.

I hope gusseting to the lower beam is a big part of your plan!

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^the laser is already burning :D

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Same was noted in the Alamo Regional. Gold numbers, numbers being painted on the Thursday with finger paint. The quality control of bumpers is a lot laid back in the States. Waterloo would not have passed those bumpers. Regulations should be across the board. I understand it's week one but something tells me some of these were not all rookie teams...

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Don't have a picture but we broke one of our hockey sticks in our match on Friday at the Alamo Regional. Thank goodness we brought extras to Texas! Nothing a little hockey tape wouldn't have fixed anyways! :)

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Any additional fallout after this week's events? Haven't had a chance to watch much of it, were the hits bigger? smaller? Interesting to see how other people faired so we know where to beef up our own mechanisms.

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There's no pictures of it, but we shattered a carbon fiber rod in our third match after taking a pretty hard hit.

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link

Saw this elsewhere on CD.